On Racial Healing and Untethering From Shame
This week I’m speaking with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein about racial healing and how my own journey began in earnest with a shame-filled moment of her calling me in, back in 2020.
That moment and how Tovi met it and me, taught me how to work with shame in a way I never have before. It sent me on an ongoing path to be more forgiving of myself when I inevitably get things wrong. To grow my confidence in my ability to make an ongoing impact through radical self love and acceptance.
This conversation is not only about racial healing work that I believe to be some of the most important work of our time. It’s about a path to finding our voice along with our humanity.
“Shame makes us hide, shame makes us shrink, shame keeps us tethered. We have to untether from shame to fully be seen. Shame doesn’t lead to our empowerment it’s going to hold us hostage.”
- Tovi Scruggs-Hussein/Racial Healing Allies
In this episode On Racial Healing and Untethering from Shame, Tovi and I dive into:
The limitations of quick fixes for systemic racism and the need for ongoing self-reflection
How shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voices
How the medicine of forgiveness and compassion grow our capacity to do hard healing work
The therapeutic and healing nature of racial healing autobiographies, and how they can set people free and change their mindsets
More about your host, Cara Jones
Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.
I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people.
I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.
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